In this exercise, we're going to introduce some text into our perspective scene.…I have saved my progress as Ready for text.ai and it's found inside the…28_perspective folder.…Now you can't create text in perspective, so that Type tool is not one of the…perspective savvy tools in the program.…However, after having created some text, you can drag it into the scene, just as…you can drag a standard path outlined into a scene.…And I will do that by the way by grabbing my Perspective Selection tool, which…you can get by pressing Shift+V of course, and then make sure that your…left-hand pane is selected here inside the widget, should appear blue.…

Then go ahead and click on the text to select it, and I must have my…selection edges still hidden.…So I will press Ctrl+H, Command+H on a Mac to bring it back, and just go ahead…and drag that text into the scene, like so.…Now, it's going to look pretty scrawny at first, as you can see here and that's…because it's getting a little bit lost in the shuffle.…

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1/28/2011

In Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Mastery, the third and final part of the comprehensive Illustrator One-on-One series, author and industry expert Deke McClelland shows how to take advantage of the wide array of dynamic effects in Illustrator CS5. Deke explores Illustrator's powerful Gradient Mesh feature, great for creating photorealistic airbrushing effects. He also covers graphic styles, the liquify tools, envelope-style distortions, the new Bristle Brushes, 3D text, and perspective drawing. Exercise files accompany the course.

Topics include:

Working with dynamic effects

Placing artwork as a Photoshop Smart Object

Creating and editing a Gradient Mesh

Distorting artwork with an Envelope Mesh

Using the Calligraphic, Art, and Scatter Brushes

Creating an intricate Pattern Brush

Importing and graphing data

Creating a complex pictograph

Drawing and editing a perspective shape

Working with the new Perspective Grid tool

Using the 3D Revolve effect

Creating 3D type with Extrude & Bevel

Recording and playing automated actions

Skill Level Advanced

13h 5m

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Q: The instructions for installing the dekeKeys don't work on my computer (which is running Mac OS X Lion). Is there an update to these?

A: The dekeKeys distributed with this course will still work for Lion. You just need to add them to a slightly different folder than in previous versions of OS X.

Open a new Finder window and choose Go > Go to Folder. Type the following file path exactly as written below. Copying and pasting may result in an error.

~/Library/Preferences/Adobe Illustrator CS5 Settings/en_US

Move and/or copy/paste the dekeKeys to this folder and follow the rest of the instructions as outlined in the video, "Installing the dekeKeys keyboard shortcuts."